This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Massachusetts.

Eugene Daly was born in Massachusetts on 14 June 1879, the eldest of the six children of an Irish immigrant father and a Canadian mother.^[1] After leaving school he worked as a painter before he enlisted on 4 May 1898 for service in the Spanish American War. He joined Company ‘A’, 9^th Massachusetts Infantry, and served in Cuba. The Regiment returned to the United States in August 1898 and Daly was discharged on 26 November. He then found work as a filing clerk before enlisting into the United States Army. He served two periods of enlistment from 12 October 1907 to 11 October 1910 and from October 1910 to 6 June 1912, when he was discharged ‘without honor’. The records indicate that his first period of service was with the Hospital Corps at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, and that the second was with Company ‘C’, 7^th Cavalry at Fort William McKinley in the Philippines. In March 1917 Daly was admitted to the recently opened National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Togus, Maine suffering from a range of ailments including chronic gastritis and chronic rheumatoid arthritis; he was discharged three months later.

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Massachusetts.

John Robert Collinson was born on 1 February 1896 in Keighley, West Yorkshire the only son and eldest of the two children of Isaac and Martha Collinson.^[1] When he was eight his mother died and soon afterwards his father remarried.^[2] The fate of that marriage is not known but in September 1907 Isaac Collinson emigrated alone to the United States, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. The two children lived with their maternal grandparents and then their mother’s brother in Leeds until they followed their father in November 1914; Isaac Collinson had remarried by the time of their arrival and over the next few years half-siblings were added to the family.^[3] Having lived for a time in Rhode Island, the family settled in Methuen, Massachusetts. Prior to his enlistment, Collinson worked in a mill in Lawrence and he lived in Methuen with his wife, Fanny, who had also been born in Yorkshire, and their daughter, Norma.^[4]

He enlisted on 23 January 1918 and joined the 249^th Battalion, Canadian Infantry; he was allocated the number 1070011. The Battalion had been raised in 1917 and by the time Collinson joined it was preparing to travel to England.

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Massachusetts.

Raymond Collier was one of several men who served for only a few weeks before dying while undergoing training. A French Canadian immigrant to the United States, he enlisted on 4 May 1918 in St. Jean, New Brunswick and joined the 1^st Depot Battalion, New Brunswick Regiment, where he was allocated the number 3259323. After only three-and-a-half weeks he was admitted to St. John Military Hospital on 29 May suffering from pneumonia and very severe bronchitis; after a few days’ treatment he rallied but then relapsed and died at 3.00 pm on 8 June, aged 22.

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Pennsylvania.

Stanley Robinson was born in Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario on 22 July 1898, the sixth of the nine children, and third son, of Daniel and Annie Robinson.^[1] The family was mostly born in Canada but Robinson parents and the younger members of the family came to the United States sometime after 1911; their movements over this period are difficult to trace but by 1916 his parents were living in Lowellville, Ohio.

Robinson, who was a spinner in a mill, enlisted in Woodstock, Ontario on 8 January 1916, aged 17—he gave his date of birth as 22 February 1897. He joined the newly-raised 168^th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and was allocated the number 675092. On 5 May he transferred to 4^th Canadian Pioneer Battalion on its formation at St. Andrews, New Brunswick.^[2]

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Pennsylvania.

Born in Hanley in the Staffordshire Potteries on 4 November 1884, Ernest McVicker emigrated to the United States with his parents around 1887.^[1] He grew up in Pittsburgh, where his siblings were born and where he went to work in the glass industry; he was a member of the American Flint Glass Workers Union.

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Ohio.

John McGraw, a married man, enlisted in the United States, probably in Chicago, for service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and travelled to Toronto to join the 1^st Depot Battalion, Central Ontario Regiment. Immediately upon his arrival in Toronto on 20 February 1918, prior being attested and taken on strength or allocated a regimental number, he was admitted to the Base Hospital suffering from paratyphoid bronchitis.^[1] He died from heart failure on 13 March 1918, aged 37.

His body was returned to the United States and he was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland on 18 March. His grave, in Section 42, Lot 237, is in the north-west part of the cemetery near the entrance and is marked by a flat Commonwealth War Graves Commission marker. He is one of two casualties in this cemetery: See Private Sam Corrodo.

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Ohio.

Sam Corrodo was born on 15 April 1897 in Oriolo, Calabria, Italy, the son of George and Carmela Corrodo [also spelled Corrado].^[1] His father, a tailor, arrived in the United States in 1901 and the family followed between 1907 and 1909. While his parents and three brothers remained in New York, Sam Corrodo moved to Chicago where he worked as a floor-layer.

He enlisted on 27 February 1918 in Chicago (he stated that he was a Canadian by birth) before travelling to Toronto to join the 2^nd Depot Battalion, 1^st Central Ontario Regiment for training as an infantryman; he was allocated the number 3232427.